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fuch a notion. He has demonftrated this denarius 
and one of C. Papius Mutilus to be of nearly the lame 
fize and workmanfhip, to be adorned with infcriptions 
coniifting of the fame fort of characters, and to have 
the very fame type on the reverfe. He has alfo in- 
contelfably proved, from the belt authorities that can 
tz produced, that C. Papius Mutilus, mentioned by 
the coins he has fo learnedly explained, was cotem- 
porary with our Veturius, or, as he denominates him, 
P. Iteeius, and the general under whofe conduCt the 
Samnites fo greatly diftinguifhed themfelves, in the 
aforefaid ruinous war, again ft the Romans. 
But this will ftill receive a farther acceftion of 
ftrength from another conftderation, relative to the 
point I am now upon, which ought by no means to 
be omitted here. Two (2.8) medals of the Veturian 
family and one of (29) C. Papius Mutilus exhibit 
almoft exactly the fame type on the reverfe, though 
the infcriptions they bear confift of different cha- 
racters. This amounts at leaft to a pretty ftrong 
prefumption, that Ti. Veturius, whofe name occurs 
on one of the Roman denarii, was either the pretor 
of the Marfi himfelf or related to fome commander 
of the allies of the fame name; as (30) Mr. Haver- 
camp takes the piece to have been ftruck not long 
after the Italians had the right of fuffrage conferred 
upon them by the Romans, in order to perpetuate 
the memory of that remarkable event. I fay, “ or 
“ related to fome commander of the allies of the lame 
(28) J. Vaill. in Num. Fam. Vetur. p. 533 * 
(29) Sag. di Differ taz. .Accademich. (ffc. ubi fup. 
(30) Sig. Haverc. Comment . in Famil. Roman, num. omn. e>Y. 
P- 43 8 > 439* 440. 
“ name; 
